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“Black Lives Matter” Movement Heather Mac Donald Author, the War on Cops A PUBLICATION OF HILLSDALE COLLEGE ImpOVERr 3,400,000imi READERS MONTHLYs April 2016 • Volume 45, Number 4 The Danger of the “Black Lives Matter” Movement Heather Mac Donald Author, The War on Cops HEATHER MAC DONALD is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She earned a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. in English from Cambridge University, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. She writes for several newspapers and journals, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New Criterion, and Public Interest, and is the author of three books, including Are Cops Racist? and The War on Cops: How The New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe (forthcoming June 2016). The following is adapted from a speech delivered on April 27, 2016, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. For almost two years, a protest movement known as “Black Lives Matter” has convulsed the nation. Triggered by the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014, the Black Lives Matter movement holds that racist police officers are the greatest threat facing young black men today. This belief has triggered riots, “die-ins,” the murder and attempted murder of police officers, a campaign to eliminate traditional grand jury proceedings when police use lethal force, and a presi- dential task force on policing. Even though the U.S. Justice Department has resoundingly disproven the lie that a pacific Michael Brown was shot in cold blood while trying to surrender, Brown is still Imprimis_April16_8pg.indd 1 4/22/16 11:14 AM HILLSDALE COLLEGE: PURSUING TRUTH • DEFENDING LIBERTY SINCE 1844 APRIL 2016 • VOLUME 45, NUMBER 4 < hillsdale.edu venerated as a martyr. And now police offi- the issue of policing, crime, and race that cers are backing off of proactive policing in remains a taboo topic. The problem of the face of the relentless venom directed at black-on-black crime is an uncomfortable them on the street and in the media. As a truth, but unless we acknowledge it, we result, violent crime is on the rise. won’t get very far in understanding pat- The need is urgent, therefore, to terns of policing. examine the Black Lives Matter move- ment’s central thesis—that police pose * * * the greatest threat to young black men. I propose two counter hypotheses: first, Every year, approximately 6,000 that there is no government agency more blacks are murdered. This is a number dedicated to the idea that black lives greater than white and Hispanic homi- matter than the police; and second, that cide victims combined, even though we have been talking obsessively about blacks are only 13 percent of the national alleged police racism over the last 20 population. Blacks are killed at six times years in order to avoid talking about a far the rate of whites and Hispanics com- larger problem—black-on-black crime. bined. In Los Angeles, blacks between Let’s be clear at the outset: police the ages of 20 and 24 die at a rate 20 to 30 have an indefeasible obligation to treat times the national mean. Who is killing everyone with courtesy and respect, and them? Not the police, and not white civil- to act within the confines of the law. Too ians, but other blacks. The astronomical often, officers develop a hardened, obnox- black death-by-homicide rate is a func- ious attitude. It is also true that being tion of the black crime rate. Black males stopped when you are innocent of any between the ages of 14 and 17 commit wrongdoing is infuriating, humiliating, homicide at ten times the rate of white and sometimes ter- and Hispanic male rifying. And needless teens combined. Blacks −´ to say, every unjusti- Imprimis (im-pri-mis), of all ages commit [Latin]: in the first place fied police shooting homicide at eight times of an unarmed civil- EDITOR the rate of whites and Douglas A. Jeffrey ian is a stomach- DEPUTY EDITORS Hispanics combined, churning tragedy. Matthew D. Bell and at eleven times the Timothy W. Caspar Given the his- COPY EDITOR rate of whites alone. tory of racism in this Monica VanDerWeide The police could ART DIRECTOR country and the com- Arthur Donley end all lethal uses plicity of the police MARKETING DIRECTOR of force tomorrow in that history, police William Gray and it would have at PRODUCTION MANAGER shootings of black Lucinda Grimm most a trivial effect men are particularly CIRCULATION MANAGER on the black death- and understandably Wanda Oxenger by-homicide rate. STAFF ASSISTANTS fraught. That history Robin Curtis The nation’s police Kim Ellsworth informs how many Kathy Smith killed 987 civilians people view the police. Mary Jo Von Ewegen in 2015, according to But however intoler- Copyright © 2016 Hillsdale College a database compiled able and inexcusable The opinions expressed in Imprimis are not by The Washington necessarily the views of Hillsdale College. every act of police Permission to reprint in whole or in part is Post. Whites were 50 brutality is, and while hereby granted, provided the following credit percent—or 493—of line is used: “Reprinted by permission from we need to make sure Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College.” those victims, and that the police are SUBSCRIPTION FREE UPON REQUEST. blacks were 26 per- properly trained in ISSN 0277-8432 cent—or 258. Most of Imprimis trademark registered in U.S. the Constitution and Patent and Trademark Office #1563325. those victims of police in courtesy, there is a shootings, white and larger reality behind black, were armed or 2 Imprimis_April16_8pg.indd 2 4/22/16 11:14 AM HILLSDALE COLLEGE: PURSUING TRUTH • DEFENDING LIBERTY SINCE 1844 APRIL 2016 • VOLUME 45, NUMBER 4 < hillsdale.edu otherwise threatening the officer with to minority neighborhoods looking for potentially lethal force. minority suspects. The black violent crime rate would Officers hope against hope that they actually predict that more than 26 per- will receive descriptions of white shoot- cent of police victims would be black. ing suspects, but it almost never hap- Officer use of force will occur where the pens. This incidence of crime means police interact most often with violent that innocent black men have a much criminals, armed suspects, and those higher chance than innocent white men resisting arrest, and that is in black neigh- of being stopped by the police because borhoods. In America’s 75 largest coun- they match the description of a suspect. ties in 2009, for example, blacks consti- This is not something the police choose. tuted 62 percent of all robbery defendants, It is a reality forced on them by the 57 percent of all murder defendants, 45 facts of crime. percent of all assault defendants—but The geographic disparities are also only 15 percent of the population. huge. In Brownsville, Brooklyn, the Moreover, 40 percent of all cop kill- per capita shooting rate is 81 times ers have been black over the last decade. higher than in nearby Bay Ridge, And a larger proportion of white and Brooklyn—the first neighborhood pre- Hispanic homicide deaths are a result dominantly black, the second neighbor- of police killings than black homicide hood predominantly white and Asian. deaths—but don’t expect to hear that As a result, police presence and use of from the media or from the political proactive tactics are much higher in enablers of the Black Lives Matter move- Brownsville than in Bay Ridge. Every ment. Twelve percent of all white and time there is a shooting, the police will Hispanic homicide victims are killed flood the area looking to make stops by police officers, compared to four in order to avert a retaliatory shooting. percent of all black homicide victims. They are in Brownsville not because of If we’re going to have a “Lives Matter” racism, but because they want to provide anti-police movement, it would be protection to its many law-abiding resi- more appropriately named “White and dents who deserve safety. Hispanic Lives Matter.” Standard anti-cop ideology, whether * * * emanating from the ACLU or the acad- emy, holds that law enforcement actions Who are some of the victims of are racist if they don’t mirror popula- elevated urban crime? On March 11, tion data. New York City illustrates why 2015, as protesters were once again that expectation is so misguided. Blacks converging on the Ferguson police head- make up 23 percent of New York City’s quarters demanding the resignation of population, but they commit 75 percent the entire department, a six-year-old of all shootings, 70 percent of all robber- boy named Marcus Johnson was killed ies, and 66 percent of all violent crime, a few miles away in a St. Louis park, the according to victims and witnesses. Add victim of a drive-by shooting. No one Hispanic shootings and you account for protested his killing. Al Sharpton did 98 percent of all illegal gunfire in the not demand a federal investigation. Few city. Whites are 33 percent of the city’s people outside of his immediate com- population, but they commit fewer than munity know his name. two percent of all shootings, four per- Ten children under the age of ten cent of all robberies, and five percent of were killed in Baltimore last year. In all violent crime. These disparities mean Cleveland, three children five and that virtually every time the police younger were killed in September.
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